❗️Yedioth Ahronoth correspondent:

One of the intelligence commanders of Hamas's military wing appeared at the body handover ceremony today, despite the army having announced his assassination in September 2024.

⭕️ On 18 February, 2025, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of demolitions in the southern West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, displacing families and exacerbating the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the area. Seven homes, a sheep pen, and a tent were demolished in the villages of Umm al-Khair, Shaab al-Batm, and Al-Tuwana, located south of Hebron. The demolitions are part of a wider Israeli strategy of expelling Palestinian residents from the area to make way for settlement expansion.

According to Osama Makhamreh, a prominent anti-settlement activist from Masafer Yatta, Israeli forces raided the village of Umm al-Khair and demolished three tin homes. The affected families are Ammar Shuaib al-Hathalin, Fatima Ali al-Maazi, and Hamid Shuaib al-Hathalin. Additionally, a house belonging to Fadl Ismail al-Najjar in Shaab al-Batm, which was home to nine people, was demolished. This house had been rebuilt only five months after a previous demolition by Israeli forces. A tent and sheep pen belonging to Yousef Mahmoud Al-Jabarin were also destroyed.

In the village of Al-Tuwana, three homes owned by Fadi, Ahmed, and Khaled Al-Amour were demolished, further displacing residents. Anti-settlement activist Fouad al-Amour highlighted the increasing frequency of these demolitions, which target both homes and infrastructure, including electricity and water facilities.

The broader context of these demolitions reflects the ongoing Israeli policy to exert control over the South Hebron Hills and other areas in the West Bank by systematically destroying Palestinian property. The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reported that in January 2025 alone, Israeli forces carried out 76 demolitions in the West Bank and Jerusalem, affecting 126 structures, including 74 homes.

Local residents have repeatedly denounced these actions as part of an effort to displace Palestinians and expand Israeli settlements. Basel Adra, a journalist and activist from Masafer Yatta, in an X post on 10 February, captured the dire situation, stating, "Masafer Yatta is disappearing in front of my eyes. Only one name for these actions: ethnic cleansing."

❗️Ukrainian soldiers are throwing away American flags after Zelensky turns on Trump. 🇺🇦vs🇺🇸

🍿What a time to be alive!

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❗️Now Zelensky's spokesperson is openly threatening Europe:

"If Europe stops supplying us with weapons, there will be terrorist attacks in Europe! We will not sit around Europe in restaurants and eat croissants..."

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺US opposes (!) use of "aggressor" wording about Russia in new G7 communique, —

▪️US representatives also object to the phrases "Russian aggression" and other similar wording used since 2022. 
▪️The Trump administration's insistence on softening the rhetoric is indicative of a broader shift in the US position aimed at presenting the war as a "Ukrainian conflict," the FT writes.

Novo-Pavlovskoye direction as of the evening of 20.02.25: battles for Constantinople and north of Andreyevka...

Here the enemy is desperately continuing to try to hold its defense in Constantinople. The reserves thrown into the battle allow them to even counterattack for now (I've already lost count of how many times the southern part of Constantinople has changed hands).

But what will happen when the "meat" allocated to hold the front (almost a brigade) runs out, no one understands. Moreover, everyone understands that as soon as we finish clearing the occupied pocket between Dachny and Ulakly (and the village itself), from the "heroes" entrenched in the basements, our pressure here will increase again.

Meanwhile, the enemy, realizing the threat to its units north of Volchya, retreats in places so as not to end up in another pocket.

Despite the fact that the fighting here is fierce, the enemy is still in a complete mess. And here Trump's latest attacks on Kyiv are playing...

👔 Zelensky "with many inappropriate statements" has strained relations with the United States

This was stated by the head of the US Treasury Department Bessent, referring to Zelensky's refusal to sign the deal on rare earth metals.

📝 "He told me in Munich that he would sign the agreement on minerals, he did not do it", Bessent said.

Earlier, Trump said that Zelensky had treated the US Treasury Secretary rudely, as well as the expired president of the dictator.

🇺🇦 After this, the Ukrainian authorities brought a bunch of protesters with Nazi symbols to the American embassy in Kyiv, as well as Trump's social network Truth Social.

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